Margo Gewurtz

Professor Margo Gewurtz is a Professor Emeritus & Senior Scholar in the Department of Humanities. Her research interests are in the field of Sino-Western cultural relations, with a special focus on the history of Canadian missionaries in China. She is currently working on a study of the missionaries & converts of the Canadian mission field in North Honan, China from 1890-1937.

Professor Margo Gewurtz teaches in Humanities as well as in the Graduate programs in History and Women's Studies. Her research interests are in the field of Sino-Western cultural relations, with a special focus on the history of Canadian missionaries in China. She is currently working on a study of the missionaries & converts of the Canadian mission field in North Honan, China from 1890-1937. Over the next few years, she will guest co-edit 2 special issues on China of the journal Social Sciences and Mission. Since her first visit to China came during the so-called Cultural Revolution 1965-75, she has retained a personal and scholarly interest in that event and continues to present papers/publish on the CR & the afterlife of memory in China.

Area of Specialization

China

Degrees

PhD, Cornell University

Appointments

Faculty of Graduate Studies

Professional Leadership

Guest editor, 3 special issues on China of the journal Social Sciences and Mission to appear in 2013, 2014 & 2016.

Selected Publications

“Looking for Jean Dow: Narratives of Women and Missionary Medicine in Modern China”, in B. Lightman and A.B. Shteir eds., Figuring It Out: Science, Gender and Visual Culture. University Press of New England, 2006: pp.267-288.

'The Reality of Names: Collective History in Two Chinese Canadian Authors.' Aspects of Diaspora: Studies on North American Chinese Writers (Euro-Sinica, Band #10). Ed. Lucie Bernier. Peter Lang Publishing, 2001. 15-38.

Selected Publications

“Looking for Jean Dow: Narratives of Women and Missionary Medicine in Modern China”, in B. Lightman and A.B. Shteir eds., Figuring It Out: Science, Gender and Visual Culture. University Press of New England, 2006: pp.267-288.

'The Reality of Names: Collective History in Two Chinese Canadian Authors.' Aspects of Diaspora: Studies on North American Chinese Writers (Euro-Sinica, Band #10). Ed. Lucie Bernier. Peter Lang Publishing, 2001. 15-38.

Book Chapters

“Looking for Jean Dow: Narratives of Women and Missionary Medicine in Modern China”, in B. Lightman and A.B. Shteir eds., Figuring It Out: Science, Gender and Visual Culture. University Press of New England, 2006: pp.267-288.

'The Reality of Names: Collective History in Two Chinese Canadian Authors.' Aspects of Diaspora: Studies on North American Chinese Writers (Euro-Sinica, Band #10). Ed. Lucie Bernier. Peter Lang Publishing, 2001. 15-38.

'Women and the Building of the Christian Church in Rural North Henan, 1888-1912.' Contacts Between Culture, East Asia: History and Social Sciences. Ed. H.K.Luk. Vol.4. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1993. 307-311.

'Famine Relief in China: North Henan in the 1920s.' Working Paper Series No. 50. Toronto: UT-York Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 1987.

Professor Margo Gewurtz is a Professor Emeritus & Senior Scholar in the Department of Humanities. Her research interests are in the field of Sino-Western cultural relations, with a special focus on the history of Canadian missionaries in China. She is currently working on a study of the missionaries & converts of the Canadian mission field in North Honan, China from 1890-1937.

Professor Margo Gewurtz teaches in Humanities as well as in the Graduate programs in History and Women's Studies. Her research interests are in the field of Sino-Western cultural relations, with a special focus on the history of Canadian missionaries in China. She is currently working on a study of the missionaries & converts of the Canadian mission field in North Honan, China from 1890-1937. Over the next few years, she will guest co-edit 2 special issues on China of the journal Social Sciences and Mission. Since her first visit to China came during the so-called Cultural Revolution 1965-75, she has retained a personal and scholarly interest in that event and continues to present papers/publish on the CR & the afterlife of memory in China.

Area of Specialization

China

Degrees

PhD, Cornell University

Appointments

Faculty of Graduate Studies

Professional Leadership

Guest editor, 3 special issues on China of the journal Social Sciences and Mission to appear in 2013, 2014 & 2016.

Book Chapters

“Looking for Jean Dow: Narratives of Women and Missionary Medicine in Modern China”, in B. Lightman and A.B. Shteir eds., Figuring It Out: Science, Gender and Visual Culture. University Press of New England, 2006: pp.267-288.

'The Reality of Names: Collective History in Two Chinese Canadian Authors.' Aspects of Diaspora: Studies on North American Chinese Writers (Euro-Sinica, Band #10). Ed. Lucie Bernier. Peter Lang Publishing, 2001. 15-38.

'Women and the Building of the Christian Church in Rural North Henan, 1888-1912.' Contacts Between Culture, East Asia: History and Social Sciences. Ed. H.K.Luk. Vol.4. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1993. 307-311.

'Famine Relief in China: North Henan in the 1920s.' Working Paper Series No. 50. Toronto: UT-York Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 1987.